Sponsored by NSFC Group of Innovation Program Marine Organic Biogeochemistry (41521064) and cooperated with Dr. Jonathan Todd from UEA, Prof. Xiaohua Zhang and Prof. Guipeng Yang published a paper named “Dimethylsulphoniopropionate biosynthesis in marine bacteria and identification of the key gene in this process” recently in Nature Microbiology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.9).